Dr.
Larry Osborne
Larry Osborne has served as a Senior
Pastor and Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church
since 1980. He has helped oversee the growth of the
church from a fledgling group of 128 meeting in a
rented school, to a multi-site ministry that reaches
nearly 7,000 in weekend attendance.
Larry is also an author and a
nationally recognized trainer of pastors. His books
include STICKY CHURCH: Slamming the Back Door Shut,
10 DUMB THINGS SMART CHRISTIANS BELIEVE,
SPIRITUALITY FOR THE REST OF US and THE UNITY
FACTOR: Developing A Healthy Leadership Team. He
travels extensively speaking at conferences and
mentoring pastors and church planters across the
country. His latest book, STICKY TEAMS, will be
released by Zondervan in April 2010.
In addition to his work as a pastor
and writer, Larry also serves as an adjunct
professor in the doctoral program at Trinity
Evangelical Seminary and as president of the North
Coast Training Network - an arm of North Coast
Church dedicated to helping pastors across the
country maximize their ministry.
North Coast Church has been
recognized as one of the ten most influential
churches in America as well as one of the most
innovative. Pioneers in the use of Video Worship
Venues, North Coast launched the first ever Video
Venue in 1998, starting what is now known in
ministry circles as the "Multi-Site Movement." Each
weekend, North Coast offers over 20 different
worship options on multiple campuses - each targeted
at a specific demographic or geographic audience.
North Coast Church's Sermon-Based
Small Groups take the weekend sermon and dig deeper
into its application with a participation rate of
80% of the weekend adult attendance. It's a model
that has spread across the nation as churches
discover its power to both disciple and slam the
back door shut.
The church also has an extensive
community outreach, averaging nearly two service
projects a day throughout the year. In 2007 and
2008, they closed the doors for the largest weekend
of service ever held by a single church. During a 48
hour span, over 5,000 members from North Coast
Church fanned across the community to
complete nearly 100 projects and over $1,000,000 in
finished work.
Larry holds both a Master of Divinity
degree and a Doctorate from Talbot Theological
Seminary. He and his wife Nancy live in Oceanside.
They have three grown children.
